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...already had some experience in Anglo-American relations. Once Portland entertained Lord and Lady Halifax; Mayor Riley sent an official car to take Lady Halifax to a luncheon. The official car turned out to be an old Chevrolet, driven by a shirt-sleeved policeman slightly moist with heat and embarrassment. Relieved to find the Mayor's wife in Lady Halifax' party, the policeman struck up a lengthy conversation...
...Anglo-American invasion of Europe seems imminent. Allied leaders have promised again & again a many-pronged assault. The invading columns could spring from British and Mediterranean bases anywhere along the 4,000-mile front between the Arctic Circle and the Aegean Sea. But only action will reveal whether the many prongs will move simultaneously or in progression...
...round of calls in Algiers. First they dropped in on French Foreign Affairs Commissioner Rene Massigli. They bore good news: Washington and London had granted limited recognition to the three-month-old French Committee of Liberation. Amiable Rene Massigli expressed "pride and satisfaction," the more so because the Anglo-American action released the spring that had held back Canada, Russia and most of the other United Nations. Ministers Murphy and MacMillan went on to visit Generals...
...formal address at the academic ceremony, the British Prime Minister made his strongest plea yet for continued Anglo-American cooperation, expressing the hope that the gift of a common language might "become the basis for common citizenship some...
...What urgency spurred Anglo-American broadcasts to Europe's chafing underground? The London radio said: "You who belong to resistance groups of specialists know already that your services are wanted on day J at hour H." The Algiers radio told the people of Occupied Europe to "perfect all preparations in the shortest possible time...